Well, long walk for a short drink of water... Moreover, the point around the anecdotal Cloudflare Developer's self experiment seems to be "Don't trust in hearsay" rather than "don't self experiment", as the major gripes with the experiment are all related to external lack of trust in the experimenter's applied scientific methods. I get the point of not overestimating your own ability to think critically in this regard, but I wouldn't discard self experimentation per se, as it could always lead to further study.

I can't even get my social circle to switch from WhatsApp to Signal, let alone anything else. I use Conversations, a feature rich XMPP client for select stuff.

Double fine as in brutal legend? Damn

Yeah what's that about? Especially stuff like "TIL" has a lot of micro channels selfpromoting

I have a friend who all of a sudden was broken up with by their decade-long partner. Never saw it coming, never got full closure. Point is you can't look into someone's head and you might never get a definitive answer as to "why" and "how" and the sooner you accept that the sooner you can move on.

Sounds harsh now, but things end and this too shall pass eventually. Stay strong.

"masks restrict my freedom" & "vaccines cause autism" are a good start

Yes keep at it, reddit wasn't built in a day!